Conservation

Learn about the advances and setbacks around protecting our oceans, waterways, forests, and wildlife.

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California Fires Threaten Endangered Joshua Trees

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How to Curtail the Risk of Future Pandemics

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Uganda is Getting 3 Million New Trees

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As Cities Grow, So Does the Need for Urban Trees
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Deserted Beaches Are a Boon to Sea Turtles During Nesting Season
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8 Creative Techniques to Keep Coral Reefs Alive
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Canada Creates Two Huge Ocean Sanctuaries in the Arctic
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So Much for Fish & Chips: Greenpeace List of Most Over-Fished Species
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Australia's Horrific Fires Were Made Worse by Logging
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5 Historical Conservationists You Should Know
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5 Things Everyone Can Do to Protect the Planet's Soil
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The Sad Irony of Using Dawn to Clean Oiled Birds
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U.K. Creates One of the Largest Marine Protected Areas in Atlantic Ocean
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Why Do Rivers Need Riverkeepers?
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Can a Glut of Fake Horns Save Real Rhinos?
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Make Your Tombstone an Ancient Tree in One of These Memorial Forests
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Florida to Buy Everglades Land to Prevent Family From Drilling for Oil
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16 Famous Animal Conservationists
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Bulgaria Is Getting a Beautiful New Forest
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5 Dangers of Oil Drilling in the Arctic Ocean
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'Turtle Journey' Film Reveals the Crisis in Our Oceans
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Conservation Is Patriotic in U.S., Poll Finds
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What Is the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone?
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James Cameron Wants Us to Stop Treating the Ocean Like a Toilet
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Vieques' 400-Year-Old Ceiba Tree Blooms Again After Hurricanes Irma and Maria
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Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $3m to Save Gorgeous Fjord From Logging
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Conservation Group to Buy Largest Private Sequoia Forest in the World
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Meet the Beautiful, Remarkable Tree That Survived 9/11
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Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in a Day, Breaks World Record
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Malaysia Struggles With Its Dubious Reputation for Palm Oil
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When Environmental Activism Is More Dangerous Than Being a Soldier
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Ocean Cleanup Mission Takes Aim at Rivers
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Caretakers Work Around the Clock to Save Abandoned Flamingo Chicks
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Students in the Philippines Must Plant 10 Trees to Graduate
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Dutch Inventor Launches Ocean Cleanup Mission
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Frankincense Is Endangered
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This Independence Day, Celebrate the Tree, Not the Tank
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Don't Underestimate the Economic Benefits of Cleaning Up the Environment
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We Are Witnessing the Collapse of Nature
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Pantone's Dire New Hues Are the Colors of Dying Coral
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Massive New Report Proves That Humans Are the Worst Species
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Do the "Shade Balls" Actually Save Water? Maybe We Need a Life Cycle Analysis.
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Ontario Government Cancels Program to Plant 50 Million Trees
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Selfie-Takers Are Trampling Dutch Tulip Fields
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Grand Funeral for a Tree to Be Held in NYC
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The 'Hole' of Lake Berryessa Is a Life-Saver
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Wyoming Billionaire Pledges to Protect 30% of the Planet by 2030
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Conservationists Plant a 'Super Grove' of Redwood Trees Cloned From Ancient Stumps
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Is There Any True Wilderness Left?
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Why Saving This Texas Golf Course Is So Crucial
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The Neuston Is a Floating Ocean Ecosystem, and Our Plastic Cleanup Push Could Threaten It
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Online Influencers Shamed for Their Treatment of California Poppy Fields
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5 Ways to Stop Deforestation
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Lake Erie's New Bill of Rights Has Angered Ohio Farmers
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The Ocean Has Issues: 7 Biggest Problems Facing Our Seas, and How to Fix Them
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Over 1,000 Mutilated Dolphins Have Washed Up on French Coast
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Is Concrete "The Most Destructive Material on Earth"?
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Lake Erie Now Has Its Own Bill of Rights
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Earth Enjoys a Surge of Ocean Sanctuaries
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Billionaire Behind 'Fortnite' Invests Millions in N.C. Forest Conservation
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9 Iconic Animals Brought Back From the Brink
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Warming Oceans Have Already Reduced Fish Populations Over Past 70 Years
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Freshwater Sources Around the World Are in Unprecedented Decline
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Give the World Clean Water for $20B?
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Can Human Rights Save Mother Nature?
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Used Oyster Shells Are Saving New York Harbor
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Bindi Irwin Honors Her Dad's Work on Steve Irwin Day
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New IMAX Film, 'Great Bear Rainforest,' Reveals Wondrous North Pacific Coast
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This New Zealand Town Wants to Ban All Cats
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Top 7 Disappearing Glaciers, Part 1
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California Teen Collects 50,000 Rotting Golf Balls From Coastal Waters
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Why Your Sunscreen Is Bad for Coral Reefs
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How Do You Transplant a Giant Sequoia? Very Carefully
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How Tech Startups and Conservationists Became Unexpected Allies
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President's Executive Order Might Open National Parks to Logging
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66 Million Trees Planted in 12 Hours in India
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Soft, Fuzzy Sculptures Hint at the Plight of World's Coral Reefs
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Researchers Discover Mesmerizing Underwater World Teeming With New Life
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Eco Fail: Subway Car Reef Project Disintegrates
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Beating Back the Lionfish With Knife and Fork
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What Are Cultural Landscapes, and Why Should We Care?
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One Man's DIY Conservation Effort Helps Rare Butterfly Rebound in San Francisco
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TerraMar Project Launches to Celebrate and Protect the World's Oceans
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A Day Spent Planting Nursery-Grown Coral in a Bahamian Reef
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The Prince's Rainforests Project
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Can Lego-Like Coral Reefs Rebuild Marine Ecosystems?
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Knit a Sweater, Save a Penguin
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Maine Rangers Battle Rock Thieves
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Fishing the Bluefin Tuna Away
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Lonely L.A. Rain Barrels Seeking Green Homes
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We CAN Regrow the Rainforest
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REDD Is Urgently Needed to Save Indonesian Forests...
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Bloggers Unite to Replant the Rainforest
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Why Africa Is Building a Great Green Wall
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'50 Ways to Help Save the Earth'
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This Is How You Do It: 4 Elephant Poachers Convicted in Congo
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What Are Moon Trees?
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In Germany, a Symbol of Division Is Reborn as Sprawling Nature Reserve
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Robots Hunt Starfish, Lionfish to Save Coral Reefs
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World's First Trampoline Park to Open in Abandoned Slate Mine
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Mobile "Half-Plant, Half-Machine" Cybernetic Geodesic Garden Preserves Native Plant Species
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Bhutan Residents Celebrate Royal Birth by Planting 108,000 Trees
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These Coastal Nations Are Losing Land, and Fast
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How Oysters Are Restoring New York's Polluted Harbor
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More Trees Than There Were 100 Years Ago? It's True!
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Why the Amazon Rainforest Could Be Devastated by the U.S.-China Trade War
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Disney Honcho Helps to Halt Demolition of Historically Important L.A. Home
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Humans Make Up a Sliver of Life on Earth, but Our Negative Impact Is Massive
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Extinct Tree Grows Anew From Ancient Jar of Seeds Unearthed by Archaeologists
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Humans Are Merely Visitors at This Conservation Oasis in Florida
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Drones Replant Forests Burned by Wildfire
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Americans Use Less Water Than They Did in 1970
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Why Kelp Forests Need Our Help
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How to Protect the World's Largest Living Thing
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20 Gut-Wrenching Statistics About the Destruction of the Planet and Those Living Upon It
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11 Nationally Protected Wetlands You Should Know About
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What Happened to the Everglades?
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Tigers and Leopards Protected in China's New Park, Which Is Larger Than Yellowstone
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12 Rainforests That Aren't on the Equator
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How Desalination Works
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Succulent Smuggling Ring Busted in Northern California
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WWF's Interactive Map Points Out Top Trouble Spots for Tigers
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What Is Reef-Safe Sunscreen?
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We’ll Be Out of Seafood by 2048 at Current Pace of Fishing
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Can Coral Reseeding Save the Great Barrier Reef?
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6 Virunga Park Staffers Killed in Ambush
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U.K. To Kickstart 'Northern Forest' With 50M Trees
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Photos Capture Diversity of Life on Earth While Inspiring Conservation
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Why These Old-Growth Forests Shouldn't Be on the Chopping Block
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How Do You Clean Up the World's Coasts? One Volunteer at a Time
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Help Save Bees With a Device on Your Keys
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Happy 56th Anniversary, Silent Spring
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How Many Gallons of Water Does It Take to Make . . .
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Date Palm Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Is a Dad
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Peru Protects Vast 'Yellowstone of the Amazon'
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Got Milkweed? It May Save the Endangered Monarch Butterfly
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Climbing Kilimanjaro for Clean Water
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SeaWorld Got Caught in a Pretty Fishy Lie
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Have We Reached Peak Sand?
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The Oxygen Project: Let's Save the Oceans and Put Money in Our Pockets
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What Would Happen if All Trees Disappeared?
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Yosemite Spends $40 Million to Protect 500 Giant Sequoias
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Nature Conservancy Establishes 24,000-Acre California Coastal Preserve
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You Might Want to Think Twice Before Buying a Seashell Souvenir
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Americans Are Quietly Preserving 56 Million Acres of Private Land
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40 Important Ways That Colleges Are Conserving Water
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A Once-Secret Redwoods Reserve Will Soon Be Open to the Public
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Ask Pablo: What's the Problem With Desalination?
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Online Database Maps Ocean Pollution and Its Effect on Animals
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If You Put All Earth's Water in One Place, It'd Look Like This
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Urban Trees Are Growing — And Dying — Faster Than Their Rural Counterparts
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We're Running Out of Wilderness
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Rafting Through ANWR, to Protect the 'Last Great Wilderness'
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7 Most Helpful Things Being Done to Save Sharks Today
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Is the Amazon Rainforest Worth an $18 Billion Bailout?
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Namibia: Africa's Conservation Success Story
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7 Deserts That Used to Be Verdant Fields and Forests
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10 Countries With the Most Protected Areas
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Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants a 1,360-Acre Forest
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65 Reef Balls Deployed to Honor 65 Sunken US Subs
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The Once Hopelessly Polluted Anacostia River Is Making a Comeback
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Meet the Visionary Who Restored 5,500 Acres of Wrecked Texas Land to Paradise
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World's 4th Largest Lake Is Now 90% Dried Up (Pics & Video)
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Teen Who Started Oregon Fire Ordered to Pay $37 Million
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Extinction Threatens World's Butt-Ugliest Fish
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Women Are Marrying Trees in Mexico
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UNESCO Selects 19 New Breathtaking World Heritage Sites
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Can Photographs Save the Caribou People?
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People Are Prying Up Dinosaur Tracks and Tossing Them in the Water for Fun
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Haiti's First Private Nature Reserve Will Protect 68 Species of Vertebrates
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Q&A With Authors of 'The Death and Life of Monterey Bay'
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Hawaii Approves Sunscreen Ban in an Effort to Save Coral Reefs
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Save Water, Stop Showering (Every Morning)
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Find Your State on the National Register of Big Trees
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Spoil Sports: 7 Activities That Damage the Environment
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Research Suggests Frequent Fires Could Help Forest Ecosystems
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5 Smart Tech Solutions to Water Challenges Around the World
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Russia Offers Free Land in Bid to Settle Remote Wilderness
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Drop a Brick in Your Toilet to Fight the Drought
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Unchopping a Tree - A Video That Puts Deforestation in Perspective
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Trump’s Death Wish for Sharks Leads to Deluge of Donations for Shark Charities
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Why Ontario Needs More Forest Fires
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It's Open Season on Trees in Poland
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Couple Creates Wildlife Sanctuary in India by Letting Barren Farmland Return to Nature
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How First Nations Have Enhanced the Forest Over 13,000 Years of Habitation
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Using Weeds and Water to Restore Degraded Land (Video)
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98-Year-Old Secret Millionaire Gives Fortune to Audubon for Wildlife Refuge
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5 Documentaries You Must See to Understand the Water Crisis
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Oregon Man in Possession of 13 Million Gallons of Illicit Rainwater Sentenced to Jail
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Rare Amazon Tribe Nearly Extinct From Deforestation
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So What Can Be Done to Save Primates?
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Whale Meat Available for Purchase on Amazon.com Japan
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Good News: Most Ecosystems Can Recover in One Lifetime From Human-Induced or Natural Disturbance
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Cacti Are Endangered for a Surprising Reason
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Fog Harps Could Wrest Water From the Clouds
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"Sun Shield" Film Could Protect Coral Reefs From Bleaching
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How Native Americans Managed "Wild" Land Long Before Settlers
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Water Conservation: The Best Answer to Our Water Problems?
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How Conservation Helps People, Too
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5 Ways Sea Shepherd's Controversial Methods Are Changing the World for Whales
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Snarky Bamboo TP Company Gives 50% of Its Profits to Toilet, Water, & Sanitation Projects
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River Ethiope Could Be First Waterway in Africa Recognized as a Living Entity
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What Is an Invasive Species?
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NASA's Maps of US Trees Will Be a "Before" Picture for Deforestation
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Tushy Launches Bamboo Toilet Paper to Help You Reduce Your Carbon Buttprint
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Save Water; Shower Japanese Style
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Australia Takes Lead on Combating Desertification
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Biomimicry Solves Age-Old Industrial Air Pollution Problem
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Conway Meets the Modern Way: Woodsman Slapped With Code Violations
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A Dangerous Game: Documentary Examines Environmental Impact of Luxury Golf Resorts
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Elephants Are Worth 76 Times More Alive Than Dead
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Clever Ways to Solve Tragedy of Ghost Fishing
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Humans Are Trustees of Allah's Creation: Islam & the Environment
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Satellite Photos Show Amazon Vanishing
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Of All the Water in the World, Just 0.08% Makes It to Our Faucets (Infographic)
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Return of the Sandhill Cranes: How California Is Bringing Back a Prehistoric Species
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Mitchell's Satyr, One of World's Most Endangered Butterflies, Gets Wing Up
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City Relocates 100-Year-Old Tree, Saving It From the Chainsaw
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What Would Be the Side Effects of Iron Fertilization?
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The 100+ State Parks Facing Closure - Is Your Favorite Park on the List? [Updated]
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Is the U.S. Navy Accidentally Bombing Killer Whales?
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Meet the Man Who Flies With the Birds in Order to Save Them (Video)
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Saving the Forest for the Beers
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4 Reasons Why Alaska's Bristol Bay Is Worth Protecting
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Scientist Enlists Forest Fungi to Save Their Own Habitat
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Resist the Urge to Flush if You're Serious About Water Conservation
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Climb a 300-Foot Tall Giant Sequoia With These Ecologists (Videos)
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Do We Really Need Zoos and Aquariums in Today's World?
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America's Rural Forests Are Shrinking
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These 2 Towns Have Dimmed Their Lights to Show Off the Glorious Night Sky
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School for Shamans to Save Culture From Extinction
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How to Reverse Desertification. With Rocks.
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Southern California Is Facing a Serious Tree Catastrophe
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Why Overfishing and Unemployed Fishermen Are Directly Linked
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What Would Happen if Sharks Disappeared?
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Water 3.0 Solves Problem of Microplastics and Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater
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Meet the Mermaid Trying to Save Florida's Ailing Springs
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City Trees Suffer From Not Getting Enough Sleep
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Great Bear Rainforest Threatened With Massive Oil Pipeline, Conservation Photographers to the Rescue
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Why Did This Businessman Buy 53,000 Acres in Florida?
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Oil on Ice - Arctic Wildlife Refuge Documentary
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What Is the Fate of the Oldest Trees on Earth?
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Everyday People Can Invest in Organizations That Protect the Environment
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New Study Reveals Just How Much Humans Have Altered England's Landscape
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Greenpeace Tackles Destructive Tuna Fishing in the Indian Ocean
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Mekong River Dam Threatens Four of World's Top 10 Biggest Fish Species
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The Farmer, Poet and Environmental Legend Wendell Berry Speaks With Bill Moyers About Social Change
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Beyond Glaciers: Yosemite's Big Trees Disappear
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Holy Bat Cloud: Designer's Eco-Sculpture Boosts Bat Biodiversity
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Bronx Zoo Opens Their Woodlands for Ziplining and Climbing in the Trees
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Urban Trees Save Hundreds of Lives and Billions of Dollars Each Year in the U.S.
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Keeping Sewage Out of Turkey's Salt Lake
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The TH Interview: Rhett Butler of Mongabay.com
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Shipwrecked Coal Ship Is Now Home to a Floating Forest
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Steve Irwin. A Fair Dinkum, Modern Day, Peter Pan
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Filmmaker Rob Stewart Fought to Protect Sharks, and Now We Must Continue His Work
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Will Barcoding Trees Save Tropical Forests? (Video)
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This 390-Year-Old Tree Survived the Bombing of Hiroshima
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The Documentary That Could Save Africa’s Oldest National Park
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Sir David Attenborough: Oceans Under Threat "As Never Before in Human History"
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An Interview With Bob Perkowitz
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Extinction Empathy Tattoos Commemorate Less Charismatic Species
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Creating Equilibrium: What if Environmentalists and the Tech-Crowd Actually Talked to Each Other?
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New Honeybee Breed Key to Combating Colony Collapse Disorder
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How to Pick a Sunscreen That’s Safe for Coral Reefs and You
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As Jamaican Islands Face Threat, Photographer Snaps Into Action
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Saving the Indonesian Peat Forests, One Basket at at Time
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Why Natural Conservation Methods Matter for the Future of Urban Water Supplies
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River Cleanups: Channel Your Love of Nature
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Southern Company, Environmental Partners Award Eight Wetland Conservation Grants
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Group Files Suit to Recognize the Colorado River as a Person
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Rarest Cat in the World Photographed in the Wild
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Less Sharks Mean an Ocean Jam-Packed With Sardines
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Interview With Jeremy Jones - Founder of Protect Our Winters
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Caribbean Coral Reefs 'Flattened' Over the Past 40 Years
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The Coral Gardener's Innovative Idea for Restoring Reefs in Fiji (Video)
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Stop Talking About Conservation. We Need Restoration and Rehabilitation.
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand & Edward Norton Make the Case for Saving Our Forests in a Gorgeous Short Film
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Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct
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Collaborative Conservation: The Story Behind the Nation’s Newest Wildlife Refuge
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Chile Creates 10 Million Acres of Protected Parkland
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Frozen DNA Could Save Endangered Species
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Surfrider Foundation Calls Us Out on Our Water Cycle of Insanity (Video)
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Would You Try to Save Microchaetus Papillatus?
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Freshwater Fish Much Larger and Plentiful Before Overfishing Took Its Toll
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Smart Water Meter Market Expected to Skyrocket to $4.2 Billion
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Country's First National Park an Oasis in War-Torn Afghanistan
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Crackdown on Copper in California to Save Marine Life
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Giant Redwoods Survived Excessive Logging; But Can They Survive Climate Change? (Video)
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No Good Deed... California Couple Tries to Conserve Water During Drought, Gets $500 Fine for Brown Lawn
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Asian Carp Study Largest Since Reversal of Chicago River
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8 of the Greatest Conservation Triumphs of the Last 50 Years
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Promoting Water Reuse by Matching Wastewater Sources With Water Needs
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How 15 Island Nations Are Changing Ocean Conservation (Video)
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What Were You Doing at 15? Teen Set to Journey Across the Last Degree of the North Pole
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England's Coast Path Will Cover 2,800 Miles of Seashore
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Costa Rica Has Doubled Its Forest Cover in the Last 30 Years
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How Conservationists Are Saving Scotland's Rainforests
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The World's Largest Privately Owned Giant Sequoia Forest Is Now Protected
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Recycled Water to Make Snow
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Whither Turkey's Wetlands?
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Buy a $100 Billboard With Yao Ming on It, Save Sharks From Finning (Video)
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From Source to Spigot: Using Art to Illuminate Two Cities' Historical Water Supplies
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In Peru's Forests, New Discoveries Signal Encroaching Dangers
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Recovering Addicts Plant a Forest of Regeneration
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Canine Conservationists Help Scientists Around the World
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Your Brazilian Eco-Certified Wood May Be Coming From Protected Areas
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Rebuilding Global Fisheries Would Make Them 5x More Valuable While Improving Oceanic Health
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Researchers Breeding 'Super Coral' to Help Weather Global Warming
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Defining Your 'Total Environmental Impact'
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Ansel Adams' Photographs Remind Us of the Importance of Preserving Our Wilderness Parks.
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Pablo Calculates the True Cost of Bottled Water
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Billion Tree Campaign
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The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Book Review)
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The TH Interview: Penny Eastwood of Treesponsibility
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How Much Water Do You Need to Shower?
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WWF's Top 10 Endangered Species to Watch in 2010 (Slideshow)
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These Amazing Endangered Species Drawings Are by Kids
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Wildlife of Katmai National Park: Why Preserving Wild Spaces Is Important
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Researchers Wrangle Sharks in the Bahamas to Improve Marine Preserves